Senior Analytics Engineer - Finance Data

Overview

Analytics Engineers sit at the intersection of business teams, Data Analytics and Data Engineering and are responsible for bringing robust, efficient, and integrated data models and products to life. In this role, you will be joining a growing Financial Systems & Solutions team and will tackle highly complex and interesting data challenges on a daily basis. You will be supporting the Finance team by engineering data products to be utilized for establishing data integrity, financial reporting, performing data analysis, and executing critical projects. This role will also include implementing and testing key controls around data, databases, and tool integrity. We’re looking for a self-driven data modeler with a background in DBT who can hit the ground running to ultimately play a critical role in the growth and development of our Finance org at Instacart.

About the Job

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Analytics Engineer to drive data quality and best practices throughout I. This position will have the opportunity to collaborate with stakeholders and other engineers from across the company as you enable our growth through the development of appropriate data metrics, validation, documentation, and tooling.

What You'll Do

Optimize for long-term value by concentrating on engineering rather than on recurring ad hoc tasks.
Contribute to the optimization, documentation, testing, and tooling efforts aimed at improving data quality and empowering data analysts, scientists, and business users.
Design and develop compelling data visualizations while also assisting in the definition of the necessary supporting data architecture.
Collaborate and mentor data analysts and scientists in the development of efficient data pipelines and models
Collaborate with both customers and teammates to identify key use cases and define the requirements that go with them.
Provide thought leadership, best practices, and standards for designing and implementing scalable data analytics solutions.
Develop, deploy and drive adoption of data quality monitoring solutions with goal being to meet increasingly higher standards of data quality and metrics accuracy
Promote and drive a self-service data culture by developing self-service data models, building easy to use tools and dashboards and teaching business users how to use them

About You

We rely on our values to guide our decisions: Solve for the Customer, Every Minute Counts, This is Your Baby, Go Far, Together and Of Course, But Maybe. What does this mean for your role? We are looking for someone who has:

5+ years hands-on experience in BI, Data Science, or Data engineering.
Bachelor’s Degree
Advanced SQL experience and dashboard building
DBT, Airflow, Snowflake and Google Scripts preferred
Exposure to Visualization Tools: Periscope and Tableau
Familiarity with: Github, JIRA, Snowflake, Apache Airflow
Strong level of knowledge and experience with multiple systems in a highly transactional business
Proven accomplishments using needed skills and with a track record of success in a fast paced environment
Highly effective written and verbal communication skills
Deep understanding of financial concepts, common accounting practices, and system solutioning
Proven ability to prioritize work and deliver finished products on tight deadlines
Ability to communicate and coordinate with cross functional teams, gather information, perform root cause analysis, and recommend solutions to business problems
Positive attitude and enthusiasm for Instacart, your team, partners and stakeholders
Effective at developing and managing cross-functional and cross-departmental relationships

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